Hey guys~
Ashy-Boy reporting in from the bitch seat.
For all of you non-biker folk, that's the seat behind the driver of the bike. Not to be confused with the humiliating side-car, mind you. In any case, Queer Geek's latest post about his brush with an irritating and bitchy celebrity reminded me of something I needed to share.
Get this, my fellows! Not all celebrities are pieces of trash to us lowly minimum wage slaves!
Take a gander at this picture. On the left, looking rather hideous and trying not to cringe at the thought of working in two minutes, is your faithful Ashy-Boy. Danny Bonaduce is on the right. :D
Danny was there for our 'Harley Days of May' event. He comes every year, so I've been told, along with 94 WYSP, who he does a radio show with. Pretty damn cool, if you ask me. The whole time he was there, he was polite and nice to everyone. He didn't turn down a single picture, he hugged people, he shook hands. He was happy to talk to those of us who worked there, and what he did for me was...pretty awesome.
See, my mother happens to be a fan of his radio show. She was going to come up so that she could meet him, but she had surgery the day before, and was unable to attend. So when I explained to Dan what was going on, I don't know what possessed me, but I said: 'Do you mind talking to her for a second?'
He said he'd love to! So I called her at home on my cell phone, handed it over, and let them talk. Nobody at work will stop talking about it! It was seriously the coolest thing ever, and it really made her week. I really hope he comes back! He's apparently always been this nice to us in the past. So not all celebrities are balls-off-the-walls insane and nasty.
But with all good things...
I know, what I do isn't exactly retail. I just find it somewhat hard to leave you all alone. I'm creepy and annoying like that.
In any case, here are a couple of the more irritating sorts of calls I've gotten recently.
1) 'I'VE BEEN CALLING FOR SERVICE FOR [x amount of days] AND NOBODY'S CALLED ME BACK OMFG'. I always, ALWAYS get these calls after Service CLOSES FOR THE DAY. That'd be around 4:30 p.m. My standard response is that the caller can leave a message for them to grab the next morning (or, if this happens on Saturday, the message gets picked up Monday, since Service is closed on Sundays) and recite the hours they are open, every fucking day. Eight A.M. to four-thirty P.M. This doesn't change. Ever. So my big question is, after I hang up the phone and tear out another chunk of hair, is why these people STILL CALL AFTER 4:30 P.M. when I KNOW one of us, the receptionists, have been telling them this for [x amount of days] that they've called after this time. You seriously can't forget that fact every fucking day.
2) This poor guy kept calling in with a phone that wouldn't hold his call. He wanted our sister store, who I also answer calls for, and each time I would page their clothing department, his hold light would blink off, showing that the call had been dropped. Clothing and I were irritated, but I couldn't help feeling bad for the guy, especially since he called in, three hours after he called ten times to do this, to apologize for the trouble. At least he did that much, y'know?
3) Crank/Prank calls. I literally had two of these in a day. The first was a girl trying to poorly imitate an Asian woman. "I WAN ROOK AT BIKE. YOU SELL ME?!" And so on. I asked her if she wanted new or used and she told me: "I PAY YOU FIVE DALLAH" which was the point when I hung up. Don't waste my time or the sales team's time.

The second was a guy who sounded intoxicated. We've had drunks in here before, so it's no big deal.
Drunk Guy: ..Yo...I was...was looking at this advertisement on this video...wanned t'see 'f it still...still worked.
Ashy-Boy: Well yep, this is Hairy-Dickson's! =D What're you looking for?
DG: ...Well...I'll...I'll tell you what I'm...what I want...Cause [garbled]
Ashy-Boy: I'm sorry, sir, who can I put you down to? Would you like to speak to Parts?
DG; I want you, baby. I want your Parts on my Parts.
Ashy-Boy: >_>
In the end, he told me he DID want to speak to the Parts department, but I was still pissed off about it. There needs to be a drunk-proof phone ap for some of these people. It'll detect if they're sober or not and shut down the phone accordingly.
Other than the fact that one of our sales managers were fired two days after one of our financial people was also fired, (for 'relations', if you catch my drift), nothing of importance has been going on. We'll be renaming our company, soon, but that's about it.
Peace, Love, and Shiny Pokes-
Ashy-Boy~